Samsung is testing out Marshmallow with Galaxy S6 users in the UK and South Korea, but it looks like some American users of the Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge, and Galaxy S6 Edge+ on Verizon and AT&T can also join in the fun.
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Phone-Probe is reporting that users that signed up via this form to beta test Marshmallow are now receiving the update.
By now, the TicWatch E, Apple Watch, and Fitbit Versa have been in play long enough for users to get a good handle on their feel and practicality. Choosing the smartwatch that’s best for you takes a little bit more digging than picking out an analog watch, so let’s dive into the deets.
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For this Battle Royale of savvy wearables, we’ve taken a more day-to-day approach rather than cracking open the hood of each device to check the nuts and bolts.
Verizon has introduced a pay-as-you-go unlimited data offering to have you covered for the moments when you need to use gigabytes of data for a short period of time. Called PopData, the bolt-on service is meant to help consumers avoid the extra per-gigabyte cost once they go over their limit.
Overage fees can be extremely cumbersome, especially when you’ve consumed a large amount of data that far exceeded your capped monthly plan. Through PopData, Verizon now lets consumers wallow in unlimited 4G LTE data in short bursts.
Putting aside any love or hate you have for Apple, you can’t but help like Steve Wozniak. The man is a legend. The Apple co-founder, who invented the Apple I and Apple II computers, has been talking with community members over at Slashdot and during the discussion the topic of Android popped up!
As part of the “interview” members posted all manner of questions for Woz ranging from “What new stuff excites you most now?
Alphabet‘s Project Loon might still be experimental in nature, but it just delivered real hope to 100,000 Puerto Rico residents in what the Project Loon team called the fastest deployment of its Internet-providing balloons ever.
Head of Project Loon Alastair Westgarth confirmed the deployment of the balloons over part of the hurricane-ravaged island in a recent blog post, saying that they launched from Nevada and are hovering over “the hardest hit parts of [Puerto Rico].
Whoever said that fast and efficient web browsing had to be limited to your computer? Though smartphones these days have been continuously getting smarter, a lot of people believe that the ultimate web browsing experience just cannot be found on mobile phones.
Maxthon Android Web Browser is here to debunk that theory. This browser claims itself to be the world’s “fastest and smartest Android browser” and looking at what features it packs, we’re pretty much convinced.
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An Android Auto pixelation problem has been going on for almost a year now. Google is finally pushing a fix for the issue, which users should see over the next few weeks. The problem caused pixelation distortion when using specific Android Auto features. Best Android Auto head units (February 2019)
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Now, almost a year later, Google is finally pushing a fix for the issue in the form of a Google Play Services update.
ZTE made quite an impression back at the MWC in February, when it introduced a bunch of uber-cool gadgets, including a quad-core smartphone for the budget-conscious and a quad-core tablet duo. Unfortunately, none of those devices have been put up for sale and a large part of the interest surrounding the ZTE gadgets has been shattered to pieces due to all this waiting.And if you’re all fed up with waiting for the Era, ZTE has just… given us a new reason to wait.
Although there has been lots of hype about sapphire screens, there has been little in the way of actual products. There are a few phones out there with sapphire screens, like a sapphire version of the Huawei Ascend P7, but that is about it. However sapphire screens could be poised to gain in popularity as China Mobile, China’s largest mobile carrier by subscribers, has started taking pre-orders for the Desay Magical Mirror X5.
Disney may be where dreams come true, but if your dreams involve taking selfies with the aid of an extendable stick, you best start making different plans for your mobile photography. A new report states the world-famous theme parks will start banning selfie sticks beginning next week.
All American theme parks will start enforcing the new rule starting June 30th, with the rest of the world following on July 1st. The news comes courtesy of a leaked internal email, which was later confirmed to the press by Disney.